Video shows the dramatic moment a police officer discovered a three-year-old girl sitting alone in a dark parking lot, hours after she was taken in a stolen car.

Caraline Leon-Alcocar was inside her mother's vehicle in Albuquerque, New Mexico on Saturday night, but when her mom got out run a quick errand, a thief jumped into the vehicle and took off, police said.

The car was later found, but the little girl was nowhere to be seen. An Amber Alert was issued.

After hours of searching, Caraline was found just after 1 a.m. by Officer Chris Poccia.

“I was using my spotlight and I saw a ball of purple, in the middle of the parking lot and I thought that’s weird and I drove into the parking lot and I could tell it was a kiddo,” he said at a press conference.

"I can't even imagine what the animal who did this was thinking," Poccia said.

Investigators describe him as 5'11" to 6' tall, between 190 and 200 pounds with short brown hair, possibly Hispanic. They are also looking to question another man, who was wearing an Oakland Raiders jacket, KRQE reported.